August 2010
1 post
Neat contest for 3 licenses to Snippets →
January 2010
1 post
“An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere. The pessimist sees...”
– Dr. Albert Schweitzer
December 2009
1 post
November 2009
16 posts
What holds the world in balance? (or, why aren't... →
”For example, there might be a Good/Evil zero sum rule. So every demon that enters the world allows an angel to enter to balance him. Which btw explains why the forces of good are so reluctant to intervene directly, they don’t want to allow a corosponding number of demons to intervene elsewhere. Or more interestingly it might be sort of the opposite of the planescape assumption. That is to...
“An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.”
– Jef Mallett
“I fell in love once. Love is some slippery stuff.”
– Cat
It's Death Metal Friday!
A Different Breed of Killer - I, Colossus
Arsis - A Diamond For Disease
Soreption - Illuminate The Excession
Psycroptic - Symbols of Failure
Nile - Ithyphallic
Coram Lethe - A Splendid Chaos
New version of 1password released today. →
Excellent password manager for OS X.
“It’s all about energy: What appears to be the bottom-line difference between...”
– via The Inside Scoop on Your Introvert Friends (via zackgilbert)
“The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into...”
– Arthur C. Clarke
“I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that...”
– Bob Dylan
“If you don’t believe in yourself,no one else will. Unless you’re a unicorn,...”
– Dan
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
– H. G. Wells
“A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”
– Oscar Wilde
“It never hurts to ask. Unless you ask for hurt.”
– Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata
“I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought,...”
– Demetri Martin
February 2009
5 posts
“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
– Horace Walpole
“A physicist is an atom’s way of knowing about atoms.”
– George Wald
When I was 5 years old, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy.” They told me I didn’t understand the assignment and I told them they didn’t understand life.
“Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.”
– Slovenian Proverb
My iTunes Registry →
January 2009
2 posts
“When life gives you lemons, invest in a lemon cannon.”
It annoys the hell out of me that people keep calling what happened during the emergency landing and evacuation of the airliner on the Hudson as a miracle.
Calling it a miracle demeans and belittles the hard work, skill, and courage of everyone involved by ripping the job they did out of their hands and making them little more than puppets of a god.
December 2008
5 posts
“God gives us friends as an apology for giving us our families.”
“I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to...”
– Einstein
“Kepler cuts line at the bar. Bartender goes, “Hey, you’re not the...”
– hotdogsladies (Merlin Mann)
“O Lord, I promise to obey you in all things if when I die you do not let the...”
– HotAmishChick
“The Lord works in mysterious ways. You should also be aware that He takes long...”
– sloganeerist - JT Dobbs
October 2008
4 posts
“Oh anonymous young lady, on election night, please stay at home and watch...”
– Patrick Rothfuss - Blog
“Well, when Saga Star Wars first came out, people said you’d have to have...”
– Grid-less 4e? - EN World D&D / RPG News
OneLessDesk™ by Heckler Design →
September 2008
1 post
“Inveniam viam aut faciam”
– I shall find a way or make one
August 2008
3 posts
“It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter’s...”
– Douglas Hofstadter: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, 20th anniversary ed., 1999, p. 152. ISBN 0-465-02656-7
“Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not...”
“To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier....”
– Derek Sivers
July 2008
3 posts
“Efficiency is intelligent laziness.”
– Anonymous
Grand Experiments: West Marches (ars ludi) →
Amazing concept for a living world RPG environment for multiple players
June 2008
6 posts
Dr. Horrible →
A List Apart: Articles: Writing an Interface Style... →
Writing an Interface Style Guide
Check Out CSS Cacheer // ShaunInman.com →
Rock Band Feature: Harmonix's Top Tips For... →
“Eat food. Not Too Much. Mostly plants.”
– Michael Pollan
Computer Random vs. True Random →
See the difference in how random numbers are generated. Thank you Random.org!
May 2008
12 posts
“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no...”
– Samuel Johnson
Stupid Secretary WTF →